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Table 2 Power of the test statistics for the hot spot clusters.

From: Power evaluation of disease clustering tests

  

Besag-Newell's R

Cuzick-Edwards' k-NN

Spatial Scan Statistic

Tango's MEET

Swartz' Entropy Test

Moran's

Whittemore's Test

  

k = 6

12

30

100K

500K

1000K

   

I

I mod

 

Rural (edge)

1

0.707

0.388

0.089

0.752

0.168

0.038

0.998

0.196

0.939

0.000

0.315

0.010

 

2

0.792

0.466

0.074

0.810

0.199

0.049

0.991

0.221

0.804

0.743

0.793

0.006

 

4

0.839

0.754

0.239

0.874

0.425

0.109

0.973

0.229

0.607

0.449

0.505

0.004

 

8

0.830

0.854

0.309

0.851

0.540

0.157

0.971

0.213

0.639

0.752

0.814

0.002

 

16

0.821

0.880

0.505

0.758

0.621

0.247

0.969

0.229

0.706

0.715

0.806

0.004

Mixed (corner)

1

0.037

0.023

0.983

0.648

0.919

0.899

0.936

0.925

0.270

0.053

0.045

0.000

 

2

0.129

0.024

0.989

0.655

0.886

0.913

0.939

0.896

0.289

0.059

0.051

0.000

 

4

0.157

0.095

0.980

0.645

0.822

0.931

0.937

0.838

0.269

0.078

0.061

0.000

 

8

0.217

0.222

0.956

0.608

0.777

0.903

0.941

0.817

0.291

0.130

0.099

0.000

 

16

0.293

0.284

0.914

0.598

0.715

0.838

0.949

0.832

0.354

0.193

0.165

0.000

Urban (central)

1

0.037

0.027

0.952

0.627

0.856

0.893

0.922

0.941

0.264

0.049

0.045

0.296

 

2

0.033

0.214

0.819

0.587

0.786

0.937

0.903

0.920

0.245

0.056

0.049

0.334

 

4

0.026

0.049

0.190

0.378

0.684

0.864

0.892

0.961

0.119

0.052

0.043

0.579

 

8

0.022

0.022

0.459

0.292

0.637

0.817

0.913

0.983

0.078

0.061

0.043

0.758

 

16

0.015

0.059

0.368

0.257

0.648

0.795

0.926

0.986

0.047

0.069

0.045

0.887

Rural and Mixed

1

0.624

0.270

0.981

0.956

0.943

0.860

1.000

0.964

0.975

0.000

0.310

0.000

 

2

0.803

0.356

0.987

0.969

0.926

0.891

0.999

0.952

0.923

0.727

0.780

0.000

 

4

0.841

0.739

0.983

0.977

0.930

0.929

0.997

0.930

0.813

0.460

0.508

0.000

 

8

0.867

0.906

0.972

0.973

0.939

0.916

0.996

0.931

0.849

0.767

0.823

0.000

 

16

0.857

0.938

0.970

0.949

0.939

0.891

0.996

0.941

0.914

0.729

0.810

0.000

Mixed and Urban

1

0.020

0.012

0.999

0.929

0.997

0.998

0.987

0.998

0.545

0.049

0.041

0.009

 

2

0.084

0.132

0.995

0.918

0.990

0.998

0.984

0.995

0.499

0.057

0.045

0.012

 

4

0.082

0.069

0.946

0.807

0.962

0.996

0.966

0.991

0.303

0.080

0.048

0.034

 

8

0.107

0.114

0.915

0.710

0.935

0.987

0.954

0.990

0.222

0.136

0.073

0.070

 

16

0.120

0.167

0.803

0.616

0.897

0.969

0.935

0.984

0.199

0.212

0.135

0.138

Rural and Urban

1

0.619

0.272

0.954

0.949

0.902

0.868

1.000

0.970

0.974

0.000

0.309

0.096

 

2

0.709

0.665

0.823

0.955

0.854

0.919

0.999

0.962

0.909

0.712

0.771

0.097

 

4

0.731

0.644

0.261

0.947

0.863

0.855

0.992

0.971

0.671

0.436

0.472

0.206

 

8

0.676

0.689

0.546

0.911

0.879

0.826

0.991

0.977

0.602

0.726

0.770

0.365

 

16

0.591

0.725

0.521

0.803

0.892

0.834

0.987

0.975

0.561

0.659

0.726

0.562

Rural, Mixed and Urban

1

0.541

0.185

0.998

0.992

0.998

0.994

1.000

0.999

0.991

0.000

0.291

0.002

 

2

0.735

0.565

0.993

0.994

0.994

0.997

1.000

0.998

0.960

0.697

0.755

0.001

 

4

0.735

0.611

0.949

0.987

0.984

0.995

0.996

0.994

0.799

0.433

0.456

0.003

 

8

0.728

0.759

0.922

0.972

0.980

0.984

0.992

0.989

0.759

0.730

0.769

0.007

 

16

0.642

0.766

0.840

0.909

0.962

0.962

0.977

0.983

0.744

0.672

0.737

0.023